12/15/2006

Ah, the Journal-Gazette. According to the right-wingers I've heardaround here, you're apparently the most liberal thing published inAmerica since old Tom Paine tried to get people to use some commonsense.Something troubles me, though - if you're so liberal, why do youalmost constantly publish letters that are anything but liberal, suchas the continually misinformed screeds of Mr. Fremont Stewart ("IraqStudy Group's findings wrong-headed", 12/15/2006)?Mr. Stewart's letter is, to put it bluntly, the worst kind offact-free fluff I've had the misfortune of reading in some time. Hedeclares the Iraq Study Group's findings to be "wrong-headed",according to the title of his letter, and refers to the ISG as"liberal". This belief is posited despite the fact that the ISG was abipartisan group consisting of an equal number of members from bothsides of the aisle. Mrt. Stewart, like so many other right-wingers,uses "liberal" as a smear roughly equal to "does not tailor facts tomy beliefs".Furthermore, Mr. Stewart's letter claims that "The Iraq Study Groupsays that giving Iran the green light to build nuclear weapons is asmall price to pay for peace in our time." At no point does it statethis, or anything like this. Mr. Stewart is, to put it simply, lyingto advance his agenda.Perhaps, if Mr. Stewart has some brilliant plan for how to fixeverything, he could suggest it to the administration - after all, hedoes seem to have all the answers. Too bad he didn't actually studyto get them.